On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Jed Michnowicz wrote:
> I have hypermail archiving my majordomo messages w/ a sendmail alias. So
> far this has worked successfully on all but one list. Every-so-often after
> a random number of messages have been archived (so far no more then 70),
> the messages just sit in the mailq and does not archive. I get a mailer
> error 13 message. New messages continue to sit in the mailq until I change
> the dir to where the messages are archived. After the archive dir change,
> everthing will work fine again for about 20 more messages.
>
> Does anybody know why this is happening?
I've found that occaisionaly on busy lists, when several postings
may come in at once, you may end up with many Hypermail processes
spawned off. When this happens, Hypermail tends to corrupt one of
the postings.
Once a posting is corrupted, your mail queue will begin to fill up with
messages deferred due to "error 13."
My suggestion is to move to a batch-style update of your hypermail
archives, instead of spawning off a new Hypermail process with the arrival
of each new message.
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1LT Chuck Milam, CAP cmilam@cap.af.mil
United States Air Force Auxiliary http://www.cap.af.mil/
Civil Air Patrol National Headquarters Maxwell Air Force Base, AL
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